By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A woman, who reportedly claimed to be an undercover police officer, has been jailed on $10,000 bail on a felony charge of breaking into a pickup truck that a woman had left running outside her home in Glencoe.
Brittany Danielle Dutton, 31, a homeless person from Pottsboro, Texas, was arraigned this week before a Payne County judge on a third-degree burglary charge punishable by up to a five-year prison term and $10,000 fine on conviction.
Dutton was arrested about three hours after Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Tomm Edwards sent the suspect’s picture from a convenience store’s video to three other deputies, according to his affidavit.
The truck owner said “she had returned home from work and left her Dodge pickup truck running as she was going to pick up some items from her house and leave,” at about 3:30 p.m. on Aug. 22, the affidavit said.
She said “when she returned to her truck she observed an unknown female, later identified as Brittany Danielle Dutton, sitting in the driver’s seat of her vehicle,” the affidavit alleged. She said “when she asked the female what she was doing in her car, the female told her, ‘I am an undercover police officer and you need to prove this is your truck,"” the affidavit alleged.
She said “Brittany continued to refuse to exit the vehicle while claiming to be an undercover police officer…when she told Brittany she was calling police, Brittany turned the vehicle off, removed the ignition key and got out of the truck and walked away from the house with the key,” the affidavit alleged.
While other deputies drove the area in an attempt to locate the suspect, “I contacted employees of the Glencoe Maverick store advising them of the incident and description of Brittany,” in a black Harley Davidson shirt,” whom they recognized on video surveillance, Deputy Edwards wrote in his affidavit.
After Edwards sent the defendant’s picture to three deputies, Dutton was spotted and arrested by Deputy Jacob Secrest, the affidavit said.
“Brittany had told him (Deputy Secrest) she saw the truck running and saw a ‘two-way key in the ignition and wanted to make sure (the owner) was not stealing the truck,” Edwards alleged in his affidavit.
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